20 april 2026 · 17:01

Humanoid robots beat humans in marathon, Google + Marvell build AI chips

The State of Tech — The European Edition of Monday 20 April 2026: A Chinese humanoid robot outruns professional athletes over 21 kilometres, exposing Europe's gap in embodied AI. Google partners with Marvell on custom inference chips to escape Nvidia's grip, while Kazakhstan emerges as the world's unexpected data centre powerhouse—threatening Europe's cloud dominance. Germany's DLR tests AI-powered morphing wings for aircraft, Google deploys AI to fight AI-generated scams, and India makes a serious bid to become a global tech hub with multilingual AI expertise.